Last week in one of our live streams, it was mentioned that the AD&D 1e Monster Manual had only 5 alignments - maybe 7, if you included good or evil tendencies. It's interesting to see the evolution of the system right before your eyes, and to never have noticed it in the last 40 years at that...

We have follow up voicemails on diseases in AD&D 1e and the pros and cons of social media.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/tenkarstavern - over 2,600 members

Tenkar's Tavern Group on MeWe - over 700 members

Dungeons & Dragons Group on Mewe - over 5,100 members!

Ah, what do you call a livestream that goes off the rails and into the wilds? Iron Rations, apparently ;)

With this week's events, I know gamers on both sides of the political spectrum that are stepping away from social media Are we too wired in?

For someone that wanted to stress game-ability over reality, Gary often mixed the two up. Disease was one of those areas...

Bad Mike & Tenkar look at Ken Whit Whitman, Conan the Barbarian, and whatever else the hex crawl brings them.

My groups invariably used a variation of Method I, but in retrospect, I wish we had used Method III.

Yep, Gary was pretty firm that only Official 3rd party materials should be used with AD&D. Ah, sweet, sweet licensing fees...

It's 2021, and I plan on kicking off a new campaign in the first quarter of this new year. While that new campaign will include monthly VTT sessions, I'm also interested in running a group or more through a play by post campaign in the same setting, and possibly moving characters between the two.

Ah, I can't get beyond the preface of the AD&D DMG without hearing not so subliminal marketing techniques.